An ornate decorative woodcut headpiece featuring symmetrical scrollwork, acanthus leaves, and two small flower pots or vases on the far left and right ends.

The Moral Journal. Sittenblatt: Historically known as a "Moral Weekly," these were popular 18th-century periodicals intended to reform social manners and promote virtue through essays and stories.

Issue 1.

The Maiden in the Leafy Valley,

Completely dissolved in tears, with a heavy heart and stumbling feet, Arcinde Arcinde is a stylized, classical-sounding name typical for heroines in the "Sentimentalist" literary movement of the late 1700s. now walked through the dark fir grove; she still looked back often, and dried her